Vernon Lopez, Chief of the Mashpee Wampanoag and first speaker of the 2007 Massachusetts Governor Inauguration.
Today's inauguration is filled with a lot of firsts.
It's the first time that the exiting governor, Mitt Romney, will not be there to turn over the "symbolic gifts" and make the ceremonial "lone walk" out of the State House, having done all of this the night before.
It's the first time that the entire ceremony will be held outside.
It's the first time that the state of Massachusetts will inaugurate a black (or any minority) governor.
But of all the firsts, I think that my favorite first is that it is the first time that the first speaker of the day was wearing a chicken on his head.
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